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Fragment from Christ Carrying the Cross: Mourning Virgin
Jean Hey, (the Master of Moulins) · c. 1500
Provenance
Ownership history
- In Italy by the late 19th century. Giannino Marchig, by 1950 [photo of the painting at I Tatti, Fiesole, is marked "photo sent by Marchig Feb. 24 1950" with an annotation "Maitre de Moulins" in Bernard Berenson's handwriting; e-mail from Fiorella Superbi, I Tatti, to Tiffany Johnston, July 24, 2003, copy in curatorial file.]; sold to Colnaghi, London, July 1, 1952 [email from Timothy Warner-Johnson, Colnaghi, to Martha Wolff, June 25, 2003, copy in curatorial file]; sold to Sir Thomas Barlow, Bart. (d. 1964), London, July 1, 1952 [email cited above]; by descent to Nicholas Barlow, London; sold to the Art Institute through Simon Dickinson Ltd., London, as agent, 2004.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- London, Colnaghi, Paintings by Old Masters, 1952, cat. 6.
- City of Manchester Art Gallery, Art Treasures Centenary: European Old
- Masters, 1957, no. 20.
- Manchester, Whitworth Art Gallery, Paintings from Sir Thomas Barlow’s Collection, 1968, cat. 6.
- Hampstead, Kenwood House, on long-term loan with other pictures from the Barlow collection, 1997–July 2003.
- Paris, Galeries nationales, Grand Palais, France 1500: entre Moyen Age et Renaissance, 2010–11, cat. 70c.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Kings, Queens, and Courtiers: Art in Early Renaissance France, Feb. 26-May 30, 2011, cat. 62.
Literature
Published references
- Ellis Waterhouse, “The Manchester Exhibition 1957,” Burlington Magazine 99 (1957), 415, fig. 21.
- Martha Wolff, “Reconstitution d’une scène de la Passion peinte par le Maître de Moulins,” Revue de l’art, no. 147 (2005), 58–66, figs. 8–11.
- "The Story of Art Retold: New Acquisitions at the Art Institute of Chicago," Apollo (October 2008): 46 (color ill.).
- Martha Wolff in Martha Wolff et al., Northern European and Spanish Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 2008), 25-30, ill.
- Martha Wolff et al., Kings, Queens, and Courtiers: Art in Early Renaissance France (New Haven and London, 2011), 131, ill.
- Yann Quero, Le Maître de Moulins: Peintre de quatre reines de France (Toulous: Éditions Arkuiris, 2022), 403-21.
- Bruno Amiot, "Le commanditaire du Saint Maurice de Jean Hey," Revue de l'art, no. 219 (2023), 8-17, fig. 3.
- Sophie Caron, "Jean Hey: Un Flamand en Bourbonnais," Dossiers de l'Art, no. 334 (Dec. 2025–Jan. 2026): 24–25, (ill.).
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